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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns Out to Be a Bot
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SAN FRANCISCO (The Borowitz Report)Chaos enveloped Twitter after the social-media company discovered that the Elon Musk who had offered to buy it three weeks ago was actually a bot.
The bid for Twitter is believed to be the largest corporate takeover ever proposed by a bot, mergers-and-acquisitions experts say.
A visibly embarrassed Parag Agrawal, the C.E.O. of Twitter, explained to reporters how the company was persuaded that the Elon Musk bot was actually Elon Musk.
The bot account had a blue check, indicating that it had been verified, Agrawal said. It now appears that the bot had somehow been given the blue check by another bot.
The C.E.O. said that Twitter was conducting a thorough internal review of procedures to insure that it is not purchased by a bot in the future.
The bot appeared to be an actual human being, which shouldve been our first clue that it wasnt Elon, he said.
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Twitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns Out to Be a Bot (Original Post)
Nevilledog
May 2022
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Lunabell
(6,111 posts)1. Hahahaha 😆
You had me!!
niyad
(113,582 posts)2. Snicker.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. Pretty much sums it up.
Tom Kitten
(7,350 posts)4. That's him in that pic?
That expression... He's even starting to look like Trump. Most be a psychopath thing.